Join us for a relaxed weekly open discussion space to read and think together about key ideas shaping d/acc.
Bring a short summary of what you read to share - along with your thoughts, questions, and interpretations.
No preparation needed beyond reading!
Week 4: Obstacles, incentives, coordination troubleshooting
Scott Alexander: Meditations on Moloch, Growing Children for Bostrom’s Disneyland - A classic on coordination problems, including lots of examples, and a future extrapolation of the underlying game theoretic dynamics.
Jose Luis Ricon: Slaying Alexander’s Moloch - Explores meta tools to solve some of the coordination problems in Meditations on Moloch.
Theme: Why do well-intentioned systems drift toward bad equilibria? How do we correct for that?
